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title: At last, when it was growing dark, I found another screw, and on tur… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, when it was growing dark, I found another screw, and on turning it, the horse began slowly to sink towards the earth. Who acts: direction, I, horse. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 47

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At last, when it was growing dark, I found another screw, and on turning it, the horse began slowly to sink towards the earth.

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**Who acts:** direction, I, horse · **What happens:** grow, find, turn, begin, sink · **To what, where:** screw, last, direction

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (direction, I, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:38:47
# text = At last, when it was growing dark, I found another screw, and on turning it, the horse began slowly to sink towards the earth.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	screw	screw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · progressive | direction |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | I | another screw |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent screw=Theme at last=Asset |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | the horse *not said here* | direction |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the horse |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sink** | to-infinitive | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the earth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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